He begged borrowed and stole to support a lifestyle many of those he took from couldn’t afford for themselves. He’d get more sympathy bizarrely were he taking it to gamble.
He could have been a great player only he gave up the drink
No reception even planned afaik
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Tis like a losing cork all Ireland
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How did he manage to get a € 9.5 million bank debt written off ? The business went bust owing over a million but that was back in 2011. He was still earning considerably from media work and personal appearances so what was he spending this bribery cash on exactly? Not expensive foreign holidays. His passport shows he hasn’t been out of Ireland since 2015.
Is he just an incredibly stupid man ?
Don’t know about most of that, but yes to the last bit
Where are you getting that info from?
Going for two years, with the final six months suspended. Back golfing in little more than a year.
His name is dirt. And he’s a golfer. Fucking hell.
He could make a return at the Ryder cup
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Judge Marty sentencing in both.
Mullin got 6 years after contesting the charges and a 4 or 5 week jury trial. He’d probably have got 4 if he’d pleaded.
Mullin had taken money from a bank but had paid the money back.
DJ took from private individuals and very little paid back.
I’ve said all along, I reckon 3 to 4 years for DJ.
Tiger and DJ as honorary starters - the redemption arc for both complete.
Tiger famously spent a day with DJ in 2002 when the WGC was on in Mount Juliet so not impossible JP would facilitate a reunion
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He’ll do 6 months in somewhere like Portlaoise or Cork to scare the bejesus out of him before being transferred to Shelton Abbey for a year or 18 months and then released.
Maybe they’ll send him to Carlton house
He also told Jane about a “land deal” somewhere between Thailand and Cambodia, and that, when he travelled there, he needed bodyguards who stayed outside his door at night.
Bizarrely, he even gave names for the bodyguards, telling her they were called “Hans” and “Suk”.
He presented Jane with a printed email purporting to be from his accountant in Hong Kong – a man called “David James”.
“He’d gotten a deal for €500m to sell land in Asia.”
He sent emails from this accountant to Jane, but when she looked at the source address it was DJ’s own regular Gmail account.
While she was living with DJ in the luxury four-bedroom, five-bathroom property, Jane started to probe more about his cancer treatment, as he was spending long periods away from home.
She had no idea where DJ was when he claimed to be abroad, but she suspected something was off from the start.
Looking back now, she believes he was likely staying close to home all along.
She explained that she never called him when he was away, supposedly for treatment, as the couple usually texted or else DJ called her.
When she asked him about the large scar on the back of his head – “Is that scar from the brain surgery the papers said you had?’ – Jane said DJ got irate, and he never gave her a straight answer about it.
She also questioned him about his visits to Seattle, so, one day, when he was supposed to be there, he sent her an image of the view from his hospital window. She quickly realised this was a satellite view image from Google that anybody could download from anywhere in the world – so she didn’t believe DJ was in Seattle.
There were times when Jane felt put down by DJ, who often made remarks about her weight and told her she “should run around the golf course to tone up”.
He’d make comments on make-up not being washed off her face properly and how her hair wasn’t nice or she wasn’t “pretty enough”.
His mood could change rapidly, as she found out one day when he turned on her for chewing her food too loudly.
DJ was also sensitive about his height, and she claimed he sometimes stood on his “tippy toes” for photographs to appear taller.
During the relationship, DJ introduced Jane to his ex-wife, Christine, and her husband, Gary Preston (who passed away suddenly in November 2023), and he also brought her to medal presentations around the country, where they received rapturous receptions on arrival, like a celebrity couple.
She also met a friend of DJ’s on “numerous occasions”, “an elderly lady who owned a big estate in Kildare”, and they visited a dying priest (believed to be the late Fr Joe Gough – a missionary priest and teacher from Gowran, Co Kilkenny).
DJ’s girlfriend noticed the strong interest he took in both and wondered why he would want to spend so much time in their company when he was a busy dad of two with other places to be. She didn’t understand the visits at the time.
“I thought it was strange; why would you be visiting and interacting with these people? Now I think he was trying to sell them a story, but at the time it was as if they were a relative or a friend. He didn’t discuss money or illness with them in front of me.”
Despite the fact that he didn’t seem to be lacking funds, Jane noticed some odd behaviour from DJ, such as the fact that he used to “borrow” cars from dealerships. “They’d be hounding him to get them back.”
She also noticed how his home was being “depleted” of furniture, which DJ claimed Sarah Newman was taking back.
“I saw him with dodgy men on one occasion taking stuff away.”
DJ borrowed over €17,000 from Jane herself during the relationship, claiming he needed it to pay “outstanding bills in relation to property”.
It was only through “sheer pressure” that she got it all back, but some of the cheques DJ used to pay Jane back with were from third parties in Kilkenny.
“My sense is that he was probably borrowing from others to pay me back. They weren’t cheques from employers, they were normal cheques written to him by individuals, I’m fairly sure.”
This stacks up with what many sources believe DJ was doing.
Once Jane started to really question some of the claims DJ was making about his health and having to travel abroad, the relationship changed.
“I pushed and pushed and pushed and he knew the game was up, so he started treating me badly and left.”
By May 2013 the relationship was over, but DJ’s weird behaviour played on Jane’s mind for many years to come.
After his retirement from intercounty hurling, DJ had devoted a lot of time to talking about his health, worrying about being healthy, visiting hospitals, dropping into support groups, asking people about their own symptoms and gathering up literature and information.
He spent time observing people undergoing treatment. He talked to many people about their own or their loved one’s cancer and asked probing questions.
At the time, people saw his actions as sincere and thoughtful. Health concerns had dominated DJ’s life from the very start of his hurling career – he always seemed to be injured, regularly appearing with a bandage or needing a scan of some sort, but that was not unusual for somebody hurling at his level.
However, there were occasions when people who trained with him thought it was odd, as they knew his skill at staying away from tackles and avoiding potentially harmful situations. There are those who doubted DJ’s injury claims and wondered if he was faking it to appear more heroic when he played a match.
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Didn’t noted GAA journalist Kevin Cashman get into a world of shit and was forced to back down after he wrote an article describing DJ as “vainglorious”
I think DJ may have threatened legal action over ut
It appears he may have been on the money
Seems it was an open secret/common knowledge he was a con man going back years. As I said before, you must be a bad yoke & known to be a strange/dodgy sort if you can be considered in many quarters the best hurler of all time yet never nail down the cushy RTÉ pundit role.
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